this is bbc news. the headlines at 3pm: president trump has criticised china on twitter, saying it's doing nothing to halt north korea's weapons programme after pyongyang test—fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a month. security has been tightened at airports across australia after the authorities said they'd disrupted a plot to blow up a plane. four people have been arrested following raids across sydney. the threat of terrorism is very real and the disruption operation, the efforts overnight have been very effective but there is more work to do. the international trade secretary liam fox has said the government would not be keeping faith with the eu referendum result if it allowed the free movement of people to continue after brexit. a record number of criminals have had their sentences increased after victims and members of the public asked for them to be reviewed. the duke and duchess of cambridge

willjoin the prime minister this evening to mark the centenary of the battle of passchendaele in belgium — one of the bloodiest of world war one. i will be reporting live from ypres, a focal point for the commemorative events and talking to one of those who have come from britain this weekend to remember ancestors who fought and died in the battle. and in half an hour — click goes to las vegas for hackfest to find the the latest on cutting edge hacking research from the most brilliant minds. president trump says china isn't doing enough to halt the weapons programme of its ally, north korea.

he made the comments on twitter after pyongyang test—fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a month. from seoul, our correspondent karen allen sent this report. us bombers dominated the sky as tensions mount over the korean peninsula, escorted by fighter jets, as part of a drill, it was seen as a direct response to north korean aggression. and the us president is blaming china for letting it get there far. taking to twitter he said: but china also condemned friday's second

intercontinental missile test. this powerful rocket flew faster and further than the one before. experts believe north korea's nuclear and missile capability is growing stronger by the day. and so it seems is kimjong—un‘s hunger to be heard. north korea's young leader. the north korean side is sending a message to the united states. the missiles are aiming at the united states and so we are going to talk to you, not to korea. more joint military exercises, a sign that force is not being ruled out, but pressure is mounting for a diplomatic solution. a pre—emptive strike could destabilise the entire region, but how long is washington prepared to wait? here in seoul, south korea depends on the americans for security. but the presence of tens of thousands of us forces here feeds

into north korea's propaganda it is under threat, justifying its nuclear ambition. with the military on high alert, the korean peninsula feels more dangerous than just a week ago. avoiding a confrontation is now key. karen allen spoke more about what china can actually do to halt the north korean weapons programme. it does have influence, it has traded influence and that is what donald trump was alluding to but its influence may be limited. there has always been sanctions against china, its imports of coalfrom north korea which were funding the nuclear programme, those stopped after a un security resolution and there are other areas it is able to cut down on and we could expect to see a more, new un sanction later this

week that it is notjust china. there was also russia, it still has to recognise this was an intercontinental ballistic missile, a trigger point for russia to be pushed on sanctions so it is not quite as simple as president trump has indicated. after all, there has been decades of mistrust in this part of the world. security has been tightened at airports around australia after the authorities said they'd disrupted a plot to blow up a plane. four people have been arrested in what the australian prime minister, malcolm turnbull, described as a "majorjoint counter—terrorism operation". a suspect is taken into custody in the surry hills neighbourhood of sydney, one of four people arrested in raids across the city by heavily armed police and members of australia's domestic spy agency. investigators say they have information that the plot to blow up an aircraft involved the use of an improvised device.

as roads were sealed off and properties searched, it has been reported the operation was not planned but a rapid response to a tip—off. the prime minister, malcolm turnbull, says the authorities have foiled what appears to be an elaborate conspiracy. i can report last night that there has been a majorjoint counterterrorism operation to disrupt a terrorist plot to bring down an aeroplane. the operation is continuing. a woman who said her son and husband were among those arrested in sydney has denied they had any ties to extremism, but senior police commanders say the raids were part of an alleged islamic—inspired plot. additional security measures have been put in place at domestic and international airports around the country. australia's national terror threat level remains at probable, which means the intelligence agencies believe that groups or individuals have the intent and capability to carry

out an attack. since 2014, 70 people have been charged as a result of more than 30 counterterrorism raids across the country. police in germany say an attack on a nightclub — in which one person was killed and three others were seriously injured — is not thought to be related to terrorism. a gunman opened fire at the venue in the town of konstanz on the swiss border. he's been identified as a 34—year—old iraqi citizen who had been living in germany for some time. he died after being shot by police. a 27—year—old man has been charged in connection with the rape of a 14—year—old girl at a railway station in birmingham on tuesday night. british transport police say they're still looking for a man who subjected her to a second attack after she flagged down a passing carfor help. the international trade secretary

liam fox says unregulated free movement of people between the uk and the european union after brexit would "not keep faith" with the result of the eu referendum. emma, does this chime with what other ministers have been saying? what we are seeing is exactly how immigration rules will change and at what pace that will happen is still being worked out. the government says it has been clear when brexit happens in march 2019, freedom of movement rules will cease to apply but that doesn't mean we will wake up the morning after and eu nationals will not be able to come to britain any more. it will be much more a phased approach with immigration controls changing gradually. the chancellor has said it will take some time before immigration controls with the eu are fully implemented but whatever hearing in the sunday times today

is comments from the international trade secretary where he says if there seem to be a continuation of freedom of movement after brexit that this would not have, would not keep the faith of the referendum result. some brexiteers see a slower change of immigration rules as not getting back control of the borders as fast as they might have liked but in reality what we are hearing is cabinet ministers are broadly agreed on the fact that does need to be a pragmatic approach to transitional arrangements but on what this might look like seems to be where some divisions are emerging. it is the first sign of a definite policy because philip hammond says there is a broad acceptance of this idea of a transitional phase, are we heading towards a policy here? we are some way off an agreed policy, do not forget the uk hasn't even started negotiating these transitional arrangements with eu yet so we have all to come to get

27 countries to agree. amber rudd has laid out plans for some of these changes to immigration rules after brexit whereby eu citizens will still be up to come to britain but will go to a documentation at registration process but there is a gap between brexit when we leave the eu and actually the way immigration rules will change, what will come in the middle, what the transitional period will look like is being thrashed out leading to speculation in some political rows. a record number of criminals have had their sentences increased under a scheme which allows members of the public to ask for them to be reviewed. last year mi criminals in england and wales had their sentences increased. the government says it wants to extend the scheme to include a number of terror related charges. aisling mcveigh reports. sarah sands stabbed a man to death in november 2014. she was convicted of manslaughter

and given a 3.5—yearjail sentence. her neighbour, michael, was a convicted paedophile and sands, a mother of five, claims she lost control, stabbing him eight times. but it was in january last year that the punishment was considered to be unduly lenient. judges at the court of appeal ruled that because sands took a knife to his flat she must have intended to cause serious harm and her sentence was doubled to 7.5 years. 1111 criminals have had their sentences increased in the last year, according to the attorney general‘s office. the unduly lenient sentence scheme allows the public to query penalties for serious offences and more people are doing just that. requests are up 17% on the previous year. sex offences make up the highest number of cases where sentences were increased and 1a sex offenders who had originally escaped prison are now serving time behind bars.

from next month, the scheme will be widened to include an extra 19 terror—related offences. the attorney general says in the vast majority of cases, judges do get it right. the number of sentences that are increased represent a tiny proportion of the 80,000 cases heard every single year. voting has begun in venezuela for a controversial plan to create a new parliament. the new constituent assembly would override the existing, opposition—led congress in what critics are calling a power grab by president nicolas maduro. the opposition parties in the oil—rich nation are boycotting the vote. the past few days have been very chaotic in caracas, barricades set up on street corners by local nieghbours and

opposition led areas. street protests are a daily part of life here, notjust in caracas but across venezuela and clashes with the authorities are inevitable as a result. this morning as voting gets under way, we have seen the president vote early, it was still night and by the time he took to the polls and cast his ballot, one of the first to do so. he said, to set an example but the whole thing is extremely controversial with the opposition boycotted the entire event because it is unconstitutional and an illegal process. i understand the opposition controls the national assembly. will they accept the vote if it doesn't go their way? no, they won't. but boycotting it entirely they are essentially handing the win to the president already.

so can they do not recognise this but it is notjust the opposition here in venezuela, neighbouring colombia, the president there says he will not recognise the result because he called the entire election spurious. there is a sense in parts of latin america this is a power grab, an effort to concentrate power in the president's hands and the fear is the national assembly or the new national assembly set up would convert itself into a cuban star rubber—stamp organisation. he says it is vital for the peace and unity of venezuelan that this goes ahead but we wait to see what the turnout will be. there was a vote a couple of weeks ago led by the opposition, looking at the pictures on the side of the screen, what has turned up been like and what is the risk of

violence hasn't been under control? yeah, the turnout is still quite early in venezuela so people do start voting from quite early but we have not seen the huge queues we used to see during hugo chavez's time. the risk of violence is very real. 0pposition have called for people to take to streets on one highway that runs through caracas, the idea of young stonethrowing protesters on that highway taking on the riot police with water cannon and tear gas and rubber bullets, all of the ingredients are in place unfortunately for real confrontation. if it doesn't unfold today, it is likely it is never far away in this current fee environment. president trump has criticised china

on twitter. pyongyang test fired its second into ballistic missile in the month. security has been tightened at airports across australia after the authorities said they disrupted plots to blow up playing. four people have been arrested following raids across sydney. the international trade secretary has said government would not be keeping the faith with eu referendum results if it allowed the free movement of people to continue after brexit. in this book would like a sebastian vettel as victory at the hungarian grand prix extends his formula 1 championship lead over lewis hamilton to 1a points. england have taken the lead over south africa on day four of the third test in the second innings they are 251 to six. sofitel comeback from 12—0 down to

leave wigan by four points to 12. i will be back with details on this story is in an hour. it claimed the lives of around 2115 thousand allied troops , over approximately 100 days of heavy fighting , to achieve an advance of less than five miles. the battle of passchendaele became infamous not only for the scale of casualties, but also for the mud that filled the trenches. this weekend events are being held in belgium to mark the battle‘s centenary. 0ur correspondent ben brown is in ypres to watch those commemorations and joins us now... the events get under way this evening started with the last post. let's talk a bit about the battle which raged for three months, the

british and allied troops making gains in terms of territory of some five miles. it was a battle where the troops who marched through here at the front line had to face not only machine guns, shells, mustard gas and emerging mentioned as well and some of them just to stay alive burrowed underground and now there is one dugout that has been opened to the public and anita church not farfrom here to the public and anita church not far from here and to the public and anita church not farfrom here and robert hall to the public and anita church not far from here and robert hall has been there to look. during the battle of passchendaele, everything in the region was destroyed and so were all possible shelters. so we are now six metres

underground and this was used as a shelter. these small rooms of this passage were where men could sleep? yes, some birds or storage rooms, they had shelter from bombardments and a resting place. this has been a massive job presumably to open this up massive job presumably to open this up to the public because it is never be opened before? no, the dugout was discovered in 1989, the archaeologists were doing some research on the medieval abbey when they found the original entrance to they found the original entrance to the dugout. when you open this up, what did you think, it is extraordinary, it is preserved totally because of the water. this is the main reason, the dugout is normally completely underwater because the level of the ground is higher than the dugout. because the wood is underwater for more than a hundred years it is well preserved.

this has been a lot of work for people here, why did you feel it was so important that today's generation saw this, just for the 100 days just briefly. it is so important as a museum, we want to be an open museum that connects with the heritage and landscape as well. and this is a unique example of such heritage point in the landscape. a unique opportunity to set it open for the public so they can see and feel how it must have been felled to live under the ground. i'm joined it must have been felled to live under the ground. i'mjoined here in ypres by philip cotterell, one of the many who've come over this weekend from britain to remember a ncestors weekend from britain to remember ancestors who fought and died in the war was a bit was your great uncle alfred who was a soldier with the cheshire regiment who died in the battle. you have a picture of him there. that's right. alfred was a

lone score in the cheshire regiment, thejoint at the lone score in the cheshire regiment, the joint at the same time as my grandfather, they served together initially in training in the uk and we re initially in training in the uk and were posted to different italians, my grandfather went to mesopotamia and india surviving the war and the great uncle alfred was with the 13th battalion and came out here and served and eventually died on the 10th of august 1917 in the battle for westbrook which formed part of the battle of passchendaele. tell us why you are here because there was a ballot for relatives who wanted to come. that's right. it was my wife that applied for the tickets to come. we did not think we would be lucky enough and we did not know what the number of people would be that responded to that, we were thinking in the millions and were

very fortu nate thinking in the millions and were very fortunate to get two tickets to come along and some of kate's friends from work also applied about here as well. i know you have read a lot about the battle of passchendaele where your great uncle died, give us an idea of what the conditions were for men like him who fought and died in the battle. conditions were for men like him who fought and died in the battlelj think horrific, really does not adequately describe it. from the research i have done with the cheshire regiment, and other people and having seen it myself, it was appalling. i know that on the run—up to the battle of westbrook it rained co nsta ntly to the battle of westbrook it rained constantly for ten days and the battle was postponed because of the water table being so high. finally, ido water table being so high. finally, i do not think they could postpone it any longer and so they sent them forward on the 10th of august at

4:30am just basically running through mud, some in trenches their knees before they even took a step out. your great uncle was only 20 when he died. do you know how he died? as i say, based upon the regimental records i have researched at the trench maps i have obtained copies of, they went over the top into this moonscape of mud and water and according to the records of the battle they were being machine—gunned by the german lines which they managed to achieve their objective and the germans retook a wooded area, i say wooded area, it would have been tree stumps and snipers there were basically shooting them out out of a thousand

dead of this attack, over 460 of them were soldiers from the cheshire regiment so they brought —— bore the brunt of the attack on the death and destruction. 100 years later you are here to remember, how important as if everybody to remember what happened at passchendaele? if everybody to remember what happened at passchendaele ?m if everybody to remember what happened at passchendaele? it is very important. when you consider how lucky we are today the lives we lead, and relative safety and comfort, the fact these men lived in a deprived condition, not having hot food, being stuck waist deep in mud and water, you can imagine even in the summertime it was horrific and think of what would be like in wintertime. these people really gave everything so we could have the lifestyle really today. and i think we are very lucky. i cannot imagine

doing it myself. indeed. nor can i. thank you so much for being with us and remembering your great uncle alfred to died at the age of 20. the commemorative events begin here in ypres this evening attended by the duke and duchess of cambridge and the prime minister and continue tomorrow. that is it from me here for now. those commemorations do continue this evening and you can see live coverage to mark the centenary see live coverage to mark the ce nte nary of see live coverage to mark the centenary of the battle of passchendaele from flanders in belgium tonight at 7pm on bbc two. cathedrals have been built at the heart of our great towns and cities for centuries but in the face of falling congregation numbers and rising repair bills they are being forced to modernise. one of england's most

treasured landmarks. now some of its own treasures are being put on permanent display. the sanctuary knocker. it was the passport for criminals or those fleeing justice to get an extension on their sentences. they could come here, they could claim sanctuary for 37 days. for me, personally, this is literally the jewel of the exhibition. it is saint cuthbert‘s pectoral cross. he probably wore it as a bishop's cross during his lifetime. over 700,000 people visit durham cathedral every year. but entry is free and running costs are high. at the moment our running deficit is around half a million a year. what we are trying to do is turn the ship and turn it into financial sustainability. this tower renovation alone costs £5 million. at guildford cathedral, costs and repairs there have been so high that at one point the bishop

warned it may have to close its doors. at peterborough, they have had to make redundancies and a new dean has been appointed to try to pay off its debts. the church of england is currently reviewing the financial management of all of its cathedrals. a special working group has been set up. here in durham, visitors say they will be happy to help cathedrals meet their costs. it is important for the upkeep if an admission charge has to be put here, i certainly wouldn't complain and i think it is something that must be done to keep the place the way it is. i would be happy to pay, to see an exhibition or evenjust to get inside and help pay for restoration in some small way. how much would you pay? £10 sounds fair. i think it is important to preserve the heritage for the country. over the years the number of worshippers coming to cathedrals has declined. making use of their religious past may be key

to preserving their future. now, the weather with tomasz schafernaker. it now, the weather with tomasz schaferna ker. it is now, the weather with tomasz schafernaker. it is awfully showery today and we cannot get rid of them, they are here to stay for 2h hours and some will be heavy body causing problems across one or two areas of the country and various events being called off because of the rain last night as well. low pressure is close by generating these showers and they are racing across the country, some are racing across the country, some are very heavy indeed but some of us are very heavy indeed but some of us are missing altogether, the far south—east to the ceiling still staying dry. tonight, the showers are continuing in many areas but late in the night and early hours of monday it clears up so lots of clear weather across the south and central

areas and the pesky shower was continuing in northern and western parts of the uk. pretty chilly in the north, 5 degrees in rural spots. tomorrow, showers continue in the north and west, the south will be a little dry and bright. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines... president trump has criticised china on twitter, saying it's doing nothing to halt north korea's weapons programme after pyongyang test—fired its second intercontinental ballistic missile in a month. the australian prime minister says counter—terror police have foiled an attempt to blow—up a plane. four people have been arrested in raids across sydney. the threat of terrorism is very real. the disruption operation, the effo rts real. the disruption operation, the efforts overnight, have been